Hi. I think older pieces - meaning pre 1945 - have got to be worth collecting, especially the rarer facetted pansy and nosegay designs and similar, and the more detailed millefiori ones. Also Chinese whites, of course. And aquarium weights. At some point Chinese collectors will get into the market for the rarer, early pieces. I doubt that the ones that have appeared in vast numbers in the last 25 years will attract much interest...but who knows?

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Thanks to you all for you comments. Appreciated! I must confess too Rose, I do like it myself and want be getting rid of it in a hurry. I am assuming from your comments Alan that the mine could be possibly pre - 1945?

I cannot be sure about yours, but I have a very, very similar pink Chinese flower paperweight which sits on the bathroom window sill, and dates to around 2005.

I have never seen a Chinese crimp rose paperweight that I would date to pre-1945. But they may exist, of course.

Alan

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Thanks for the update / correction. I have not seen any in the UK - perhaps they were mainly (solely?) imported to the US, given that is where crimp roses are collected?

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I'm well aware of the (slight) risk of fire...I included a similar article in the PCC Newsletter a bit ago. And I have personal experience of having burned some marks on tables in the conservatory by leaving weights there for just a few minutes (and also burned the palm of my hand in a few seconds...)!

However, it needs to be a particular shape of paperweight (roughly spherical) for the focal point to fall conveniently on the surface nearby, and it needs to be primarily a clear glass design. My damage was caused by two Mayauel Ward floral weights. But you should not leave paperweights in sunlight anyway: the heating can cause them to crack, and there is a risk with some paperweights that the UV will lead to purple discolouration due to excess manganese precipitating out of the clear glass (early Paul Ysart weights and some Silesian weights are prone to this problem, even out of strong sunlight).

Alan

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Hi Alan, I thought it was worth mentioning anyway and the info. you have provided will certainly be more than useful to the new followers of Glassmessages. It's so easy to be distracted from the 'safety in mind', whilst placing a paperweight on a window sill. It is definitely a subject/topic that requires awareness. Within such beauty can also lie danger. Even now I don't honestly think much is done to make people aware. Even carers of the elderly are known to place paperweights on window sills.